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Ovoid

An egg-shaped curve. Lockwood (1967) calls the Negative Pedal Curve of an Ellipse with Eccentricity $e\leq 1/2$ an ovoid.

See also Oval


References

Lockwood, E. H. A Book of Curves. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 157, 1967.



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1999-05-26